The Horse goes on and on

The number of blogs that I have seen come, and go .... and yet "The Horse's Mouth" carries on. I don't know how many posts I've made exactly, but it's approaching 1500. Why the difference? I suspect it's because many blogs don't have a long-term purpose and so the blogger starts off with a fit of enthusiasm, but that wanes with time. And add to that ... if it doesn't become a daily habit, then odd days get missed then batches of days and the thing dies.

This blog has not one but multiple reasons that keep me going; it's unlikely to "fold", and at times the main reasons are competing with each other.

• The blog is a way of making technical tips and techniques available to the world - these items are not for regular reading, but for search engines to index and provide a quick route to some hard to find answers

• The blog is to keep in touch with family who may read it from time to time, and with friends. We say "come as a Student, leave as a Friend" on our courses and so the line between technical and non-technical can blurr here

• The blog is a quick route to putting up some more "salesy" material - either for our clients to find and read directly (for hotel or for courses), or at times for standard answers which outselves keep using in emails to customers - a repository of standard paragraphs, if you like.

I try to balance - to post about 50% of my articles non-technical and 50% technical - as a compromise for all my visitors. And when I "err" as I have done in the last week and get all too technical, the knowledge of this helps pull me back in balance. I do have a load more Tcl and Tk examples to post - you'll see them in the next few days - but I also have some non technical subjects I'm just looking for a moment to tell you about. Thank you for reading thus far, and please carry on watching this space!
(written 2007-12-15 11:51:23)

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